Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/mm: Add page soft dirty tracking

From	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/mm: Add page soft dirty tracking
Date	2015-10-17 16:00 +0200
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On Sat, 2015-10-17 at 17:49 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> This will break after
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2015-October/135298.html
> 
> 
> A good option is to drop this patch from the series and let Andrew take
> the first two patches. You can send an updated version of patch 3 against
> linux-powerpc tree once Michael pulls that series to his tree. 

Or not ... I'm not comfortable with your series just yet for the reasons
I mentioned earlier (basically doubling the memory footprint of the page
tables).

They are already too big.

Cheers,
Ben.

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[PATCH 3/3] powerpc/mm: Add page soft dirty tracking Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-10-16 14:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/mm: Add page soft dirty tracking "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-10-17 14:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/mm: Add page soft dirty tracking Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> - 2015-10-17 16:00 +0200

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